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The trend of "No Mow May" follows the logic that leaving your whole lawn unmowed for the month can help pollinators. The birds, bugs and bees will use the overgrown weeds and flowers as food and shelter. Instead of doing this for a month then mowing it all down, consider dedicating a small portion of your yard to pollinators for the whole season.
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Made HereA Hill Farmer's Story, this week's Made Here local documentary series premiere, tells the story of director Kathryn Youngdahl-Stauss' discovery of two early 20th-century diaries from Granville, Vermont.
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Made HereThe Made Here film Seeds of Change: Breaking Free from the Prison Food Machine follows an organic farmer in Maine who set out to transform the prison food system with an organic gardening program.
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Vermont Public's Jenn Jarecki recently spoke with Dr. Kristin Haas, the state veterinarian and director at Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, about how to deal with pets on April 8.
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Made HereThe latest premiere in the Made Here series features the farming collective Sageterre, lead by writer and philosopher Jean Bédard.
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Made Here"Hide" takes viewers inside the daily lives of migrant farmers who sustain Vermont's dairy farms as they organize in an effort to overcome isolation and discrimination.
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As Vermont lawmakers debate whether to ban a class of pesticides known to harm bees, one beekeeper has taken matters into his own hands.
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Lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban the use of seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Vermont by 2029 and most spraying in 2025.
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Volatility in global markets and industry consolidation have forced the people who work the land to seek out new business models, and those workers say a 54-year-old land-use statute is stunting the innovation needed to keep the agriculture and wood products sectors alive.
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A wind storm in early January had gusts over 80 miles per hour west of the Green Mountains, including in the town of Bristol, where farmers and sugarmakers suffered major damage.